Posts Tagged ‘InSea

This month the InSEA Newsletter is out and my article Visual Culture in English Foreign Language Learning is included in the publication. To see the article and news on current trends in global art education please click here. Incidentally I would like to thank Enid Zimmerman for her kindness and patience with editing.

The World Creativity Summit was held in Taipei from June 5th to 8th.During that time I worked as the summit International Administrator while teaching full time at Huafan University and taking five PhD courses.Please excuse my late posting of these images.

On Tuesday my PhD classes will begin and the new spring semester will officially start. However, it actually feels like the winter semester never quite ended with all the conference abstracts to submit and journal submissions to edit. This week I have to write one paper and finish editing another.

Last week I was made the international secretariat of the World Creativity Summit which is happening in Taipei this June in conjunction with InSea. This is a lot of extra work. There are documents to review, emails to send out, and important people to call- every day. Part of me is worried about how this extra responsibility is going to impact my life until the conference in June. Already the conference has taken over my entire weekend.

Last week was a trying week. At work there were renovations interrupting my teaching. I went upstairs to the office to find a repair man drilling into concrete right outside my window. Went to use the computers in the library but they were all full. Got lipstick on a new blouse. Discovered I can be too generous with friends. Met a professor at my art exhibit only to find the building closed. Spilled coffee.

I also find that in order to really write my head needs to be clear. I have to isolate myself and just focus on the subject at hand. All this is hard to do when you have about twenty emails a day demanding your immediate attention.

My photography has also not been up for a while because two of my memory cards have crashed and I cannot access the photos on them. The good news is that I’ve been asked to do cover photographs for Taipei Pictorial magazine. This is something that means a lot to me and I am going to make time for it and enjoy the process. That’s all for now…

The marketing software company HubSpot sponsored an event at Irving Plaza in New York, NY on Thursday February 18th to provide an overview of their services to potential clients and marketers. HubSpot markets through Web 2.0, social media, email marketing, CRM, and blogs. The event began at 2pm and began with a session on how […]

Pacers from the New York Flyers running club 20.9 miles 8’37” pace/mile time This was a very meaningful race that I’d trained hard for. I knew that running 20 miles along the rolling hills of Central Park was going to be a challenge. I wanted to finish and finish strong. The race began at 7am and […]

This was a special race as it took place in my hometown of Vancouver, BC. I had wanted to run a Vancouver race for a while and it was an absolute pleasure to run through UBC, West Van, and Stanley Park for 13.10 miles. The course began at UBC’s Thunderbird Arena and ran along SW […]

It was a great experience to run my first marathon at home in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois on April 26th. I decided to run with the 3:50 pace group and met a lot of interesting people on the course. Our pacer Steve had run 13 marathons in one year and I connected with others who traveled across […]